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French bishops urge nation's senate to reject assisted suicide (Conférence des évêques de France)
Posted on 01/16/2026 22:01 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“Palliative care is the only right response to the trying situations of the end of life,” the bishops wrote on January 14. “Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide would profoundly change the nature of our social pact.”
Criticizing the misuse of the words dignity, freedom, and fraternity, the prelates said that “the dignity of a human person does not vary according to his or her state of health, autonomy or social utility; it is inherent in his humanity, to the end. It is inalienable.”
The prelates added:
To evoke a “law of fraternity” when it is a question of causing death, of giving the possibility of administering a lethal substance, or of inciting a caregiver to do so against his conscience, is a lie.
Fraternity, the central value of our Republic, does not consist in hastening the death of those who suffer or in forcing caregivers to cause it, but on the contrary in never abandoning those who live through these difficult and painful moments. Fraternity invites us to definitively refuse the temptation to cause death, and, at the same time, to make a resolute commitment to effectively develop palliative care throughout the land, to strengthen the training of caregivers, to support caregivers, to breach solitude, and to recognize that vulnerability is part of the human condition.
Official takes stock of Vatican-Jewish relations (CWN)
Posted on 01/16/2026 22:01 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
A Vatican official took stock of the past year’s developments in Jewish-Catholic relations and focused on the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate.
Becket Report Finds Increases in Support for Religious Liberty in the Public Square
Posted on 01/16/2026 21:36 PM (The Daily Register)
Christian Symbols in Public Buildings On Trial Before European Court of Human Rights
Posted on 01/16/2026 21:34 PM (The Daily Register)
EWTN Launches Unified Catholic News Brand: CNA and ACI Group Become EWTN News
Posted on 01/16/2026 21:31 PM (The Daily Register)
French Bishops Condemn Euthanasia Bill Ahead of Senate Debate
Posted on 01/16/2026 21:18 PM (The Daily Register)
Nigeria Accounts for 72% of Christian Killings Worldwide, New Report Finds
Posted on 01/16/2026 21:13 PM (The Daily Register)
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy forms men of God who build bridges, prelate says (Vatican News (Italian))
Posted on 01/16/2026 21:01 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“For the diplomats of the Holy See, this commitment is rooted in the virtue of hope, in the conviction that peace is born above all as a gift from God,” said Archbishop Pennacchio, who was appointed the academy’s president in 2023. “It is the task of the pontifical representative to nourish this hope in the light of Christ, with a spiritual life founded on the daily listening to the Word of God and on prayer.”
Vatican News, the news agency of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, interviewed the prelate as the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy begins its 325th anniversary year. The academy trains priests for the Holy See’s diplomatic service.
Rising sea levels, climate change threaten Guinea-Bissau, L'Osservatore Romano warns (CWN)
Posted on 01/16/2026 21:01 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Vatican newspaper warned that the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau (map) is “threatened by rising sea levels and climate change.”